Croak. Jenny Sampirisi

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СКАЧАТЬ Fore Limbs: Complete

      Extra (complete) Digit(s): Fore limb

      Incomplete Lower Hind Limb: No foot

      Multiple Hind Limbs: Split

      Incomplete Upper Fore Limb: No elbow

      Partial Duplication of Digit(s): Hind limb

      Incomplete Fore Limb: Partial fore foot (hand)

      (Walk off.)

      Frogs

      This is odd. (Pause. Huff.) There are too many limbs. Why limbs? Why toes on limbs? Why limbs at all? Why fear of limbs? This isn’t deformity. Where are legs? Two legs. Where are elbows? Why nose? Why this instead of houses? Why boxes? Why not explain? Why mention? Why invite invent intent a cause for all these effects? (Huff.) There’s not a whole lot to push about here. (Pause. Louder.) This is odd. There are objects everywhere. Object. Object. Object. Did it break? Did it grow handles? Did the word splinter? Did the tooth chip? I know a good dentist. I know a good etymologist. An optometrist. I know the reconstructive surgeon. Fuzzy script. Mossy skin. (Frustrated.) What music is playing exactly? How big was the arm? Who notices?

      Girls

      this is dd (zzz uff) there are tt many limbs why limbs why ts nn limbs why limbs at all why fear ff limbs this isn’t ww where are legs ww legs where are ws why nn why ns instead of hh why xx why tt explain why nn why intent a cause rr all these effects (uff) there’s tt a tt muscle tt (zzz zzz eff) this is dd there are everywhere (.) (.) (.) did it break did it grow handles did the n splinter did the tt chip I know a dd dentist I know a dd etymologist I ww the (.) nn fuzzy ss skin what sic is exactly as big as ht ht htt m

      The Narrators

      The Girls are not all right

      The Frogs are not

      all

      right

      Frog One

      (Interior café.)

      A chair leg stuck in the churn of pond water

      evaporating with us.

      It’s really about everything.

      (Hopping on right foot.)

      An old car rolls in sideways and sinks. It sinks.

      Mud is a thing a car isn’t.

      Coaxial cables weed the river bed.

      (FROGS: Brekekekex-koax-koax.)

      Words we can’t get rid of trip up

      moveable, for example skin.

      One particle moves.

      On the other side a toe splinters.

      On the other side a word called toe.

      Now you have extra. More. Extoe. Exactly.

      (Hopping on left foot.)

      It’s always about something.

      Mud or car or sink or float or water spider

      or meniscus or leg or foot or arm or pond.

      Be about something. A something worth a word.

      A frog. A frog.

      A something.

      A frog. A frog. Leaps (Plants feet.)

      and grows a new toe.

      Examine. Extend. Extol.

      The Narrators

      (Monotone.)

      Nothing new. There: one foot encased in a boot, but the other in a slipper. All cafés are the same. All cafés with girls in them knitting and drinking or chewing with their mouths open. The frogs, having lost their way, sit and drink soapy liquids. All the smells and touches and tastes are the same. Nothing is new. Don’t let them mislead you.

      Girl Zero

      (Tuning fork. Three times between pauses.)

      The extra one isn’t a problem so much as a document. It outlines another performance that may or may not happen hourly. (Pause.) Children gather around the limb. I wave all fifteen fingers then enter the café. There are frogs everywhere. They don’t notice me walk in. (Pause.) I order a gin and tonic but glassware always presents a problem. Why I order anything without a handle. (Pause.) I can’t drink the gin and tonic. I have fifteen fingers for waving but none for drinking. (Pause.)

      Frog One

      (Head down.)

      Missing back left leg.

      Missing back right leg.

      Extra foot growing out of back left leg.

      Extra back right leg.

      Deformed back left leg.

      Unabsorbed tail.

      Extra left leg.

      Extra and deformed left leg.

      One-eyed. Tail unabsorbed.

      Missing left leg. Deformed tail.

      (Exit.)

      Girl One

      sing back .ft leg

      sing back .ht leg

      ex fff rows back .ft leg

      ex k right leg

      dorm back .ft leg

      tadpole t. ever ab

      ex .ft leg

      mm .ft leg

      one-eyed fff ail un.sorb

      sing .ft leg form tail

      Zzit.

      Girls

      (In turn.)

      You find the way because you have two hands stretched out.

      You find the way is not the way but another road you couldn’t have been looking for.

      You find the way because you change your name.

      You invent the way and there is no real way to speak of.

      You find the way because the world was formed in advance of your arrival.

      You СКАЧАТЬ